Saturday, April 16, 2011

One of those days

I owe an apology to another birder, a young fellow with a camera. This was more than an hour after I had photographed the same bird. Strawberry Fields..... loads of hermit thrushes and this one tiny bird flitting all over the lawn. Warbler behavior. My brain fixated on female kinglet. It acted like a kinglet. It looked like a young or female kinglet, maybe a bit larger. My brain got stuck in that rut. It flit around shagging bugs. I could see the bugs. The young birder showed me his pictures and asked, "What's that?" My mouth blurted, "Kinglet". But now I suspect this is a least flycatcher. I had never before seen one on the ground. I suspect this is a flycatcher. It was catching bugs with extraordinary acrobatic skill. But I could be wrong.Correction: April 26th, I got corrected by a pal. It's a PINE WARBLER. Live and learn.